Right, but those deaths were in an environment when there were interventions to protect people. Take away those interventions and you have more deaths.
For example, look at the 0-14 graph of excess deaths at https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps. It would be very hard to say that 2020 and 2021 are any different from any other year as far as kids are concerned. During that time we had all sorts of lockdown on, lockdown off, masks on, masks off, vaccines, school open, school close, but the graph stays within its normal pre-covid variance irrespective of all these interventions.